I still do not own Pokemon.

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Chapter 2: Ten Elements, Six Elementals.

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There were rules that one had to follow if they wished to become elementals.

First was that you had to swear to fight evil. This was a token rule. There was nothing stopping you from becoming evil later, but since the guardians could sense if you were lying, you had to not be evil at the time you were granted elemental power.

Second, you had to have a pokemon partner that you were already bonded to. It didn't have to be a true bond, you and your partner got that after being granted your first elemental power. But you had to have a closer bond then 'I captured you, you serve me'. Any good trainer had a pokemon that they were closely enough bonded to. Also, the pokemon had to match one of the elemental powers: Fire, Water, Ice, Wind, Earth, Electricity, Psychic, Morph, Light, and Shadow. All but a few pokemon had one of these powers.

Third, the first elemental power that you gain must match the element of you partner pokemon. If you have a Pikachu, you must obtain the elemental electricity first. After the first one, there was no necessary order. Few people ever got one elemental, but fewer still got a second. Most chose a second that was the opposite of the first, such as ice or water if the first was fire. Either that or the second elemental that they got was from the first temple that they could find after receiving their first elemental.

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If one were to receive an elemental power, they were then called an elemental. The first elemental power did three things.

First, it created a true link between you and your partner pokemon. The elemental understood what the pokemon was saying, it understood you, and you could communicate telepathically.

Second, your partner pokemon learned new moves. Depending on the element, the pokemon learned anywhere between three and ten moves that no other pokemon, who wasn't paired with an elemental, knew.

Third, the elemental, the human part of the elemental and pokemon pair, gained power over the element. A new electric elemental could control lightning during a thunderstorm. A well-trained electric elemental, especially if he was also water and or wind elemental, could create the thunderstorm.

The second elemental power received, and those after, also gave new attacks to the pokemon and control over the element to the elemental. A squirtle that was partnered with a water and fire elemental could do attacks that were water or fire related. With some training, they could combine element attacks. For example, fire and shadow combined to make a very strong attack called 'shadow flare.' Or more than two could be combined. An attack that combined Ice, Psychic, and Morph, called 'petrify drain' rendered its target a petrified version of its un-evolved self. Even if the target was able to brake of it's petrified state, it would be at a very low power until the next time it was given a pokemon potion.

There could only two elementals of the same element at one time, as there were only two fire temples, to ice temples, etc.

There was one other thing to being an elemental. If you died, one of two things happened. One, your powers went loose into the world. That would be really bad. The other is that you gave you powers up. In that case, you either chose to let them return to the temples that you got the powers from, or you passed them on to someone you felt was worthy.

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Ash walked through the door with a smile on his face. He seemed to be doing that a lot recently, smiling. The other five who were already in the house were always happy when he smiled. They remembered when they first came together, the six of them. He was always frowning. He didn't know that they knew, but he cried himself to sleep almost every night at the beginning.

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They each were elementals when they first met each other.

Jen was ice, paired with a frosty named Chloe.

Mark was fire, paired with a charmander named Chris.

Sora was water, paired with a goldie named Silver.

Joe was earth, paired with a grant named Obsidian, Obi for short.

Hikari was wind, paired with a hawkin named Rush.

Ash was electricity, paired with Pikachu, a pikachu.

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That had been nearly six years ago. It was Ash that had motivated them to find the other temples, and to gain more powers. It was ash that conceded the first shadow temple to Hikari, despite his desire to gain that element. Before they knew it they each had two. Jen gained psychic, Mark gained Light, Sora gained electricity, Joe gained morph, and Hikari gained shadow.

They decided that Ash, as their leader, deserved the power from any other temple that they could find. When they made him swear that he would accept those powers, none of them knew that they would find all of the remaining nine.

Sure, they were afraid of his power. But they trusted him, and knew that they need not be afraid of him using the power unwisely.

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"So, love, you got it?" Hikari, Kari for shot, asked her boyfriend after he sat down at the kitchen table.

"What do you think?"

"I think that I need to ask you a question?"

"And that is?"

"What does the man that has done the impossible do next?"

"I'm going to see mother. It's been almost eight years."

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